GEO Source Code The Programmers Community

Creation of a Zip Archive in PHP is not a difficult task, it is very easy to manipulate Zip Files using the PHP Zip extension. Here is a simple php code to create a new zip file.

Code: Select all

   $objZip   = new ZipArchive( );
   $sZipFile = "demo.zip";

   if ($objZip->open($sZipFile, ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE) === TRUE)
   {
      $objZip->addFile("/path/file-a.ext", "file-a.ext");
      $objZip->addFile("/path/file-b.ext", "file-b.ext");
      $objZip->close( );
   }


First of all, we are creating a new zip archive using the code

Code: Select all

    $objZip   = new ZipArchive( );

    $objZip->open($sZipFile, ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE);


Then we have to add files into the archive using the addFile function.

Code: Select all

      $objZip->addFile("/path/file-a.ext", "file-a.ext");


And in the end, we are closing the zip archive creation process.

Code: Select all

      $objZip->close( );


Unzipping/Extracting a zip file in PHP is also very simple. The following code shows a basic example of unzipping of a zip file.

Code: Select all

      // Extracting the zip file
      $objZip = new ZipArchive( );

                $sZipFile = "sample.zip";

      if ($objZip->open($ZipFile) === TRUE)
      {
         $objZip->extractTo("sample/");
         $objZip->close( );
      }


The above code assumes that you have a sample.zip file, and you are extracting this into the folder named "sample" within the directory where you are running this script.